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April 27, 2005

Bill Nye the Bow Tie Guy

(Filed under: TV)

Bill Nye the Science GuyBill Nye the Science Guy has a new show, "Eye to Eye with Bill Nye." In a recent interview he reveals that he liked to play ultimate frisbee in college and why he wears bow ties:

"I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties. Cuz, I'm not joking with you: If you're working with liquid nitrogen and your tie falls into it, it's funny in a way to the audience but it's also—pun intended—a little bit of a pain in the neck."

He also gets into religion:

"Along with this resurgence or embracing of fundamental Christianity is this rejection of science. And that's bad. ... I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say who can evaluate claims. When I go to Dinosaur National Monument and look at the hillside there that's under a pavilion built by the Woodrow Wilson administration, when I look at the dinosaur bones accumulated there, I cannot accept the idea that the Earth is 10,000 years old and that we were put here just as we are. That is not reasonable to me. That this divine being or something put these things here to test me? Created all of radio chemistry—that is the potassium argon dating of volcanic soil—created all this just to fool me? ... I believe that [people who believe these things] haven't been well enough educated in the process of science and the generally accepted—for lack of a better term—truths about the universe, about nature."

Posted by kevin at April 27, 2005 9:53 AM

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